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T. S. Eliot
B. 1888 D. 1965
...the communication of the dead/is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. - from Part 1 of 'Little Gidding', T. S. Eliot
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Samuel Menashe
B. 1925 D. 2011
O Many Named Beloved / Listen to my praise - 'O Many Named Beloved', Samuel Menashe
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Michael Longley
B. 1939
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney
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Roy Fisher
B. 1930 D. 2017
...anything I have seen, I've only seen by virtue of having been very inattentive or rebellious at school, and looking at what was out of the corner of the picture, what was outside the frame. - Roy Fisher
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Kathleen Jamie
B. 1962
...if poetry is a method of approaching truths, and each of us with a human soul and 'a tongue in oor heids' can make an approach toward a truth, poetry is inherently democratic. - Kathleen Jamie
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Jean Sprackland
B. 1962
everyday life is turned into something instantly more compelling and mysterious... there's an undeniable beauty at the dark heart of these strange poems - Neil Rollinson.